Junzaburō Nishiwaki, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Junzaburō Nishiwaki

Japanese writer

Date of Birth: 20-Jan-1894

Place of Birth: Niigata Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 05-Jun-1982

Profession: writer, poet, translator, university teacher, literary critic, linguist

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Junzaburo Nishiwaki (?? ???, Nishiwaki Junzaburo, 20 January 1894 – 5 June 1982) was a contemporary Japanese poet and literary critic, active in Showa period Japan, specializing in modernism, Dadaism and surrealism.
He was also a noted painter of watercolors. Between 1960 and 1966, Nishiwaki received 7 nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature.